Statistics - Apollo Brown, The Left, Journalist 103

(I Know you've been hurt) man you don't know nothing man

(By someone else) yeah, whatever you don't know nothing about me man

(I can tell by the way) yeah, go ahead with that man

(You carry yourself) I gotta do what I gotta do

I got my middle finger up and it's nice and high

It's just me against the world and I'm down to ride

And anybody who oppose and they claim they want it

I got the ruger on my side if you think I'm frontin'

I'll take it back a lil' bit so you can understand

How the land of the free make this type of men

I got a coked out mom, alcoholic father

Who walked out when I was ten, like "fuck it, why bother?"

So now my attitude is like fuck it, why bother

I stay blowed of the kush to even think of karma

Rose bank roses and hoes was the best slogan

That I lived by next to "I got you open"

I had gave up hope so I started accepting

That my life ain't shit without a Smith & Wesson

Cuz' when sales get slow and them pockets empty

I'm gonna squeeze on the semi til' the clip is empty

Just like Mr. Simpson you boy's guilty

I'm the environmental product of this great country

Cuz' of the violence I stay vibrant

I'm one of the last dudes you wanna see on the live tip

Either the graves or the sales what I'm headed for

Cuz' based of on the statistics I'm prepared for it

Either the graves or the sales what I'm headed for

Cuz' based of on the statistics I'm prepared for it

She was living in the city with the most geographical space

Most abandoned buildings murder cases and annual rapes

Like going on to climate cold

Highest unemployment

Try to swim instead of sink

But the economy wasn’t buoyant

Poignant observation at the chief of Police

Appointed by the mayor who betrayed you like cons in Donald Goines lit

Backdoor deals cuz the chief is on the boards

Of the new prison and it grease his palms, slicker than some ointment

Every life has got about as much a chance as surviving this circumstances

Guess and toke a coin flip

Made an appointment and she met up with the welfare

Office try to get her bit medicated health care

But they had her jumping through the hula hoops

I guess some help as hard as trying to pull a tooth

Her heart, it wasn't bulletproof

For the youth, but the stress was speeding up the ageing so

Got a new wrinkles from a gray hair ratio

In the winter with over four feet of the waves of snow

House on foreclosure, now she out with no place to go

So free your mind up, this is a reminder

The United States incarcerates more than they do in China

We only 5% of all the worlds pop but

It's 25% of all the world's locked up

So I wonder how to break the cycle, will it ever stop?

If we see people as numbers and we make 'em check a box